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“Tall girl and short boy become unlikely friends and potential lovers after romantic setbacks.”
Lovely Complex
ラブ★コン
8.03
679 rank · 646,558 viewers · 11,065 favorites
Comedy
Romance
School
Shoujo
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Synopsis
Tall girl and short boy become unlikely friends and potential lovers after romantic setbacks.
Love is unusual for Risa Koizumi and Atsushi Ootani, who are both striving to find their ideal partner in high school—172 cm tall Koizumi is much taller than the average girl, and Ootani is much shorter than the average guy at 156 cm. To add to their plights, their crushes fall in love with each other, leaving Koizumi and Ootani comically flustered and heartbroken. To make matters worse, they're even labeled as a comedy duo by their homeroom teacher due to their personalities and the stark difference in their heights, and their classmates even think of their arguments as sketches. Lovely★Complex follows Koizumi and Ootani as they encourage each other in finding love and become close friends. Apart from their ridiculous antics, they soon find out an unexpected similarity in their music and fashion tastes. Maybe they possess a chemistry yet unknown, but could love ever bloom between the mismatched pair?
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 228 sampled reviews
8.4
/10
What 228 viewers settled on.
94%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 10
σ 1.82
Agreement
Polarized
σ 1.82 · split reception
The polarity gap
5.8 pts
Recommenders 9.0 · others 3.2
Yes
No
Score over time
↓ 1.56
Running avg · Jul 2007 → Jan 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “Breath-taking, gut-wrenching and both heart-breaking and heart-warming. One of the first animes I truly cried at, yet one of the first that made me fall off my chair with laughter. A must.”
- 9 “Lovely Complex is a great way to enter into the world of anime. While the story itself is fairly easy to follow and understand it is the characters themselves that truely make this a great anime. I...”
- 10 “Outstanding anime. Very easy to watch,perfect mix of romance and comedy. Art is pretty good and characters are just flawless. You never feel bored and hanker for more. If you want to lighten your...”
Verbosity
Short · 45%
Medium · 38%
Long · 17%
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- Format 24 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 9h 36m all episodes
- Aired Apr 2007 – Sep 2007 Spring 2007
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-1855 catalog
Produced by
- TBS Producer
- TAP Producer
- Sony Music Entertainment Producer
- Shueisha Producer
- Nichion Producer
Licensed by
- Discotek Media Licensor